WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2020 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4302

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 14, 2020; Referred

to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, physician assistants.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for miscellaneous agencies and boards to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. Board of Medicine.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 25, 2019, authorized under the authority of §30-3E-3(a) of this code, modified by the Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 8, 2019, relating to the Board of Medicine (licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, physician assistants, 11 CSR 01B), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, and physician assistants.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.